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this is the state of my progress on my 

Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt

 I had just started machine piecing 12 Dresden Plates

 to applique to the center on my B Blocks. 

I have all of the fan blades done

but I can only get a few minutes here and there on my machine,

none of it the last few days.

My sewing machine has been covered.

Mr. Scrapatch has been working when he can on a home improvement project in our living and dining room ...

My Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt has an addition to the plan.

I saw a completed top in the Coriander Quilts Facebook Group 

in lovely 30's fabrics that combined

 the Irish Chain Blocks with Dresden Plates 

and had to borrow the idea. 

A Dresden Plate bed quilt has long been on  my quilty list.

The combination of these two blocks was iressistable. 

 Mr. Scrapatch has also been busy on a home improvement project in the living/dining room ...

10 Quilts ~ 10 Days ~ Day 5

This is my

 Pink Scrappy Stripes & Curves Quilt

I started this quilt with a pile of scrap fat quarters, smaller scraps and leftover yardage from other quilts.

Scrappy Fan Blade Block ~ Curves Challenge

In order to duplicate the original blocks,

I made my own templates to cut the curves for the rest of my blocks.

I used fabrics from my stash.

The background whites are scrappy, too.

There are pieces of four ...

The kitties and I have been busy sewing more scrappy blocks for our

Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt

Maestro prefers to help in my piecing and pressing area. 

My plan for Saturday is to stay warm and sew scrappy.

My quilty corner of the world is under the bitter polar vortex 

that is sweeping through the northeastern USA and eastern Canada. 

Temperatures here dipped to -14 degrees F ( -25C) 

with a wind chill to -40 degrees F.

We are all safe and snug in our little house.

So I am chain piecing ...

I have decided to restart my sewing skills by making the 

Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt

featured in my last post. 

I am making a yellow and blue and green quilt!

I have printed the pattern and Corey Yoder's background fabric cutting chart

Here are the fabrics that I have pulled from my stash. The jelly roll at the top is one of my oldest treasures. I have two charm packs of the prints and a charm pack of the wovens, too.  It is Sunshine by April Cornel for Moda fabrics.  The charms in the front are from a newer ...

This has been Week 3 Triangles for 30 Days of Improv

... and sewed my five blocks ... 

... I sewed together the triangle scraps in my basket in random order.

As I was trimming and squaring my block, 

... the idea popped into my head to sew a triangle shaped block.

As I did not have enough scraps left in my basket to sew the top of the triangle,

I like to "rug a mug" with my scraps.